Gustavus Collection

This poster was created by the Nazi Party in the 1930s. To strengthen and promote an Aryan race, motherhood was highly encouraged, if not demanded, of German women. This poster illustrates the perfect German family and can roughly be translated

In 1928, Nazi politician Kurt Gruber formed a Nazi youth group called “Deutsches Jungvolk” which means “German Youth” in German. The Deutsches Jungvolk recruited boys from ages 10 to 14 and when the boys reached age 14 they would then

World War I brought chaos to so many nations around the world. Naturally, the most disruption was found in the countries in which the fighting was directly taking place. Many Eastern European citizens were displaced by the war in what

As one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history, World War i changed the characteristics of warfare forever, both on the battlefield and at home. For much of the war America remained neutral, limiting their intervention to shipping supplies and

The World War I era in the United States, particularly following the nation’s official entry into the war on April 6, 1917, was one dominated by the curated image of bringing democracy and liberty to the struggling nations of Europe

The United States was under-prepared to start World War I. In 1917, President Wilson ordered a draft that would propel countless Americans into one of the bloodiest conflicts of Earth’s history. While nations such as France and The British Empire

This poster, drawn by American artist Ellsworth Young (MoMA) in or around the halfway point of 1918 (the Fourth Liberty Loan Act was passed in June of that year (National Museum)), depicts the invasion of Belgium by the German Empire,

This piece of propaganda was created by the United States Department of Labor in 1919. It reads, “The public schools of this city and the United States government are helping our foreign born friends who are applicants for American Citizenship

The First World War was the result of a long period of political tension between the Empire of Britain and its allies and the rising power in Europe, Germany. Leading up to World War I, Britain had been expanding its

This poster from the Sackett and Wilhelms Corporation of New York, created in 1918, depicts many people pointing up and rejoicing at the ringing of the Liberty Bell, encouraging citizens to “ring it again, (and) buy U.S. government bonds (through

The poster that I chose was made by The Graphic Company in Washington D.C. in 1917 for the United States School Garden Army. There are a few main colors of this poster: red, blue and green. The color that really stands

While the First World War raged on, the United States government searched for support from the people of America for the military involvement overseas. Some of the propaganda used to gain this support came in the form of posters that

During the First World War posters were the easiest form of propaganda to spread. Posters like this one depicting the woman called the Daughter of Liberty. She is a symbol of American motherhood, trying to protect countries that were having

During the First World War, food was rationed on the home front in nearly every belligerent nation in order to properly feed the soldiers fighting on the front lines. The United States was by no means an exception to this,

World War I was one of America’s largest early propaganda campaigns done. They would release countless ads across multiple points. One such example is the poster “This church is behind the United War Work Campaign for the boys over there.”

This poster depicts an American soldier preventing a German soldier from hurting a woman and her child, with the caption: “Halt the Hun! Buy U.S. Government Bonds, Third Liberty Loan”. Henry Raleigh, a prominent artist at the time, created this

Demonization is not an uncommon concept in the crafting of images of war. It is hard to hate an enemy when you see them as human, as in those moments when one is funding the slaughter of our own species,

The American Committee for Relief in the Near East was founded in 1915 in response to the Armenian Genocide, which resulted in the slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians. The mission of the ACRNE was and still is to create a

The Great War reshaped gender roles and led to several important advances for women in American society. By challenging traditional gender roles, the war provided new and exciting opportunities for women outside of the domestic sphere and into the workforce.